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Healthy eating - how to overcome an obsession

  Do you use food as a tool? From a very young age, diet tricks, hacks and tips are introduced as a way to change the way that you look, to improve health or to gain control over eating. While some of these strategies can be helpful, many are unhealthy and sometimes hazardous to your health and well-being. Your thoughts about food matter. In our diet-crazed society, eating too little, eating too much and never eating with pleasure can be harmful for the body. Both undereating and a cycle of restriction and binging can have serious effects, especially when this style of eating becomes a way of life. Feeling “fat” can make you more obsessed and preoccupied with food – making you more irrational about how you really look and more inflexible with your food choices. Because under or overeating can cause many psychological and physiological effects, shifting the way that you look (and speak about) food is critical. The effects of poor nourishment on the brain can lead to difficulty in ma...

Evaluate your "healthy" diet

picture source             Are you looking for an easy dietary switch that will quickly improve your health?                 Are you looking for an easy lifestyle change to boost your immune system?        Are you looking for a simple way to eat smarter in order to take your training to the next level?                              Look no further because the magic answer lies in real food.  This is the ingredient list for flavored oatmeal. Regardless if you are choosing low sugar for the "healthier" option or an instant flavored packet is more delicious and convenient, you can clearly see that there is more to oatmeal than oats in this package. Guar Gum, Artificial flavor, creaming agent, partially hydrogenated soybean oil, flavored and colored fruit pieces, corn syrup solids..... I realize that oats...